ALRANZ: Abortion Law Reform and Vote Health

"It is time for the Coalition to accept that we can no
longer afford the cumbersome and expensive apparatus that
serves no purpose and consumes health care resources that
could be redeployed into further contraceptive subsidies and
other areas of Vote Health in need." Craig Young, Research
Officer for the Abortion Law Reform Association of New
Zealand today.

"The Abortion Supervisory Committee has no
regulatory functions other than research, setting quality
assurance standards for counselling, and urging the
implementation of a detailed reproductive and sexual health
strategy for this country based on a firm framework of
comprehensive sexuality education. While it does an
excellent job in those areas, and we hope the staff can be
redeployed to a reproductive and sexual health unit in the
Ministry of Health, the time has come for abortion law to
reflect reality. As a conscientious lobby group, ALRANZ will
continue to press for a more cost-effective legislative
framework than the moribund Contraception, Sterilisation and
Abortion Act." Mr Young concluded.

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